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Comic Book Easter Eggs – Spider-Man in the 30th Century!

Every Tuesday, I will be sharing with you three comic book “easter eggs.” An easter egg is a joke/visual gag/in-joke that a comic book creator (typically the artist) has hidden in the pages of the comic for readers to find (just like an easter egg). They range from the not-so-obscure to the really obscure. So come check ‘em all out and enjoy! Also, click here for an archive of all the easter eggs featured so far! If you want to suggest an easter egg for a future column, e-mail me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com (do not post your suggestion in the comments section!).

This week features all easter eggs from comic books with Keith Giffen as a part of the creative team!

First off, in just this most recent comic book week, O.M.A.C. #5 had an amusing little hidden joke when Frankenstein is fighting O.M.A.C., Frankensten decides to blow up a gas truck to take O.M.A.C. out (hint: it does not work).

Well, check out the name of the gas company…

Crude, but funny! I don’t know if it was Giffen’s joke or inker Scott Koblish or leterer Travis Lanham.

In Legion of Super-Heroes #300, Giffen did a wonderful double-page spread of all the Legionnaires…

He also threw in some special guests, including Spider-Man and Garfield! Here is a detail so that you can see it easier…

A few different folks suggested I feature this Legion one. Thanks!

In 52 #2, which Giffen did breakdowns for, the plot of the story is that so-called “mad scientists” are being rounded up. So T.O. Morrow has a wall filled of newspaper clippings about the disappearances of the scientists.

Can you name where all the mad scientists came from? Doctor Sivana, IQ and Doctor Death are easy, but where are the other characters from?

That’s it for this week!

Again, if you can think of an easter egg/in-joke that you would like to see me feature, drop me a line at bcronin@comicbookresources.com! DON’T make suggestions in the comments section, so as to not spoil the surprise for when I end up actually featuring your suggestion.

FredII

In the bottom right corner is spidey, Garfield is at the bottom about three spaces to the right, the Fat Fury is just after him moving right behind two other folks I don’t recognize (must be actual heroes) and hten on the otherside of the detail panel, about six spots to the right of the bat shadow is Fonzi…aaaaaaayyyyeeee!

Brian Cronin

chad

cool easter eggs love the name of the gas truck hilerious. plus the spider man and garfield little back ground cameos. wonder if keith put them in because he liked the characters the last ones other then sivina and i q quimby have no clue about the other mad minds of the dc universe.

DanCJ

Bouncing Boy

I had noticed the Spider-Man and Garfield on that page, but somehow I had never noticed Herbie: The Fat Fury until seeing the blown up panel. I had always thought the “Fonzi” was Bowser from Sha Na Na, but Squiggy makes more sense. I’m pretty Sure Rond Vidar is on the other side somewhere, so there’s no way that the “Fonzi” is him. Also there’s no way it is Fonzi because Arthur Fonzirelli never had that spit curl.